Occupation: Professor Birth: 1954
I'm not sure the notion of employee or job is going to survive the transition over the next couple of decades. The very notion of a fulltime job will….
Though I carry enough electronics to get nervous in a lightning storm, I love paper and I always have a Moleskine journal with me to capture notes, c….
Sometimes I think we're on this world for three reasons: to be useful, to tell each other stories and to collect stuff. It's the only explanation for….
If you look at the last 150 years, about every 30 years or so, a new scientific discipline emerges that starts spinning out technologies and capturin….
I would say digital technology probably doesn't have much impact on us so far. We've seen photographs of people from when they are alive. We see home….
It will take a decade or two, but fundamentalism is going to burn itself..
The Web is a compelling new medium being put to all kinds of uses, by everyone from banks to Cub Scouts to flying saucer cults. That said, it can als….
The value of a social network is defined not only by who's on it, but by who's excluded..
"Point of view" is that quintessentially human solution to information overload, an intuitive process of reducing things to an essential relevant and….
Microsoft is a big intellectual roach motel. All the big minds go in, and they don't come out..
When everybody else is in a down market is focusing on what they're doing wrong, instead focus on what you should be doing differently, it may be tha….
Responding to climate change will become the obsession of the next decade in much the same way terrorism was this decade's obsession..
I think it is just a matter of time before we have literal ghosts in the machine so you can create an alter ego of yourself that learns from your soc….
Stock prices turn people's heads. When prices are high, we treat a company like gods, and if they drop, we treat them as fools..
I live on a canyon at the edge of San Mateo. We are fortunate to have lots of suburban wildlife as our neighbors, though I kind of wish the rattlesna….
As recently as the '70s, people were forced to see information that they didn't agree with in newspapers and the like. Now there is so much informati….
We tend to use a new technology to do an old task more efficiently. We pave the cow paths..
Every day huge amounts of information break off like icebergs and melt away. What worries me is that much information in electronic form is never red….
As a global society we are performing a great experiment on ourselves. Half of the world population wants to race faster into the future. Go visit Ch….
Never mistake a clearer view for a short distance just because the technology looks like it's about to arrive in the very near future. Chances are th….
Think about reading: Today, parents would love it if their kids read books more because the parents understand the books. Just over 100 years ago, pa….